धृतराष्ट्र उवाच
अधर्मेण हतं श्रुत्वा धृष्टद्युम्नेन संजय ॥
ब्राह्मणं पितरं वृद्धम् अश्वत्थामा किम् अब्रवीत् ॥
मानुषं वारुणाग्नेयं ब्राह्मम् अस्त्रं च वीर्यवान् ॥
ऐन्द्रं नारायणं चैव यस्मिन् नित्यं प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥
तम् अधर्मेण धर्मिष्ठं धृष्टद्युम्नेन संजय ॥
श्रुत्वा निहतम् आचार्यम् अश्वत्थामा किम् अब्रवीत् ॥
dhṛtarāṣṭra uvāca
adharmeṇa hataṃ śrutvā dhṛṣṭadyumnena saṃjaya ||
brāhmaṇaṃ pitaraṃ vṛddham aśvatthāmā kim abravīt ||
mānuṣaṃ vāruṇāgneyaṃ brāhmam astraṃ ca vīryavān ||
aindraṃ nārāyaṇaṃ caiva yasmin nityaṃ pratiṣṭhitam ||
tam adharmeṇa dharmiṣṭhaṃ dhṛṣṭadyumnena saṃjaya ||
śrutvā nihatam ācāryam aśvatthāmā kim abravīt ||
Having heard, O Sanjaya, that the brahmin, his aged father, was unrighteously slain by Dhrishtadyumna — what did Ashvatthaman say? He in whom the weapons always abided — the human, the watery, the fiery, the brahma, the aindra, and the narayana — the mighty one; having heard that this most righteous one, the Acharya, was unrighteously slain by Dhrishtadyumna, O Sanjaya, what did Ashvatthaman say?
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Dhritarashtra repeats the question "what did Ashvatthaman say?" three times, and in this insistence one hears fear of the vengeance to come. It is telling that he calls Drona "most righteous," slain "unrighteously": even the blind king recognizes the wrong done by his own side. The verse teaches that a guilty heart senses reckoning before it arrives; the anxious return to a single question betrays a conscience awaiting retribution for a trampled dharma.